Hi Laurie,
That bird had been there for years before I saw it there in 2010. However, I
only saw it on my fourth visit to the site, and a local ranger said the bird is
there only about 25% of the time so it has other roosts.
Cheers,
Chris
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> On 28 Sep 2014, at 17:19, Laurie Knight <> wrote:
>
> G’day
>
> I spent a couple of days on the Bunya Mts (Qld) last week. Although it was
> school holiday time, the campgrounds weren’t packed on week nights, and the
> walking tracks were fairly quiet away from the Dandabah hot spots. The dawn
> choruses were pretty good, with the pittas and riflebirds calling regularly.
>
> Yesterday morning, I was out before the noisy crowd and looked up while
> passing through the well known fig (a few hundred metres from Dandabah).
> While there were no telltale droppings on the boardwalk through the tree, a
> Sooty Owl (as featured on the info board inside the tree) was quietly
> roosting on an internal branch about 15 metres up. I was surprised to see
> it, given that hundreds of people would have passed through the tree on a
> daily basis that week.
>
> I imagine that most people pass through the tree without noticing the bird
> and it has become accustomed to people so that it doesn’t flush. I think
> that as long as people don’t shine lights at it or use call playback, that
> bird might be a reliable feature there. I was certainly able to get good
> photos without using a flash at 8 am.
>
> Regards, Laurie.
>
>
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